Quote#Wisdom
This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all,…
Quote byLucy Stone · 1818–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Antoinette Brown (c. August 1849) as quoted in Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846–93 (1987) edited by Carol Lasser and Marlene Merrill.
English (original)
This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.
— Lucy Stone
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